Text: | Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended? |
Author: | Johann Heermann |
Translator: | Robert S. Bridges |
Tune: | HERZLIEBSTER JESU |
Composer: | Johann Crüger |
1 Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended,
That man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by Thine own rejected,
O most afflicted!
2 Who was the guilty? who brought this upon Thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee!
'Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied Thee;
I crucified Thee.
3 For me, kind Jesus, was Thy incarnation,
Thy mortal sorrow, and Thy life's oblation:
Thy death of anguish and Thy bitter passion,
For my salvation.
4 Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay Thee,
I do adore Thee, and will ever pray Thee,
Think on Thy pity and Thy love unswerving,
Not my deserving.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended |
Title: | Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended? |
Author: | Johann Heermann (c. 1630) |
Translator: | Robert S. Bridges (1899) |
Meter: | 11 11 11 5 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1974 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christ: Death; Christ: Passion; Christ: Sacrifice(1 more...) |
Source: | Jean de Fecamp, d. 1078 (based on) |
Copyright: | Words from the "Yattendon Hymnal" (edited by Robert Bridges and H. Ellis Wooldridge) by permission of Oxford University Press |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HERZLIEBSTER JESU |
Composer: | Johann Crüger (1640) |
Meter: | 11 11 11 5 |
Key: | f minor |